Laodikeia East Byzantine Gate

The East Byzantine Gate was built at Laodicea on the Lycus, the ancient city near modern Denizli, in 395-396 AD under the joint authority of the emperors Theodosius I and Arcadius. It marked one of the formal entrances into the city at the eastern end of Syria Street, one of Laodicea's major colonnaded avenues, and belonged to the phase of late Roman and early Byzantine construction that reshaped the city's fortifications and street architecture in this period. Like much of Laodicea, the gate has not survived above its lower courses, and today only its foundations remain visible within the archaeological site. It nonetheless provides a precisely dated reference point for late fourth-century building activity at Laodicea, helping archaeologists establish the chronology of the city's final major phase of construction before its gradual decline in later centuries.